133: Boomerang Employees: A New Perspective on Lifelong Loyalty with Lee Caraher
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How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 22 March 2017
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Lee Caraher returns to talk about why it’s unrealistic to expect employees to stay for long stretches and the mutual benefits by “boomeranging.”
You’ll Learn:
- A fresh definition of lifelong loyalty for the changing times
- How to make a graceful exit for both employees and employers
- How to tell if you’re boomerang ready
About Lee
Lee is the founder and CEO of a highly sought after communications firm known for producing great results with its innovative approach to traditional, digital and experiential programs. She has a long history of leading high-performing, multi-generational teams that enjoy working together. Lee is a champion for creating a positive workplace culture that fully supports its talent, even when they choose to move on. She takes the long view to support employees building their own personal brands that balance loyalties to themselves and their employers. Lee believes that companies able to inspire lifetime loyalty from employees — currently or formerly employed — are the companies that are best suited to thrive. She has long recognized that people will leave employers and understands the real problems this causes for companies.
Items Mentioned in this Show:
- Website: leecaraher.com
- Lee’s Company: doubleforte
- Book: The Boomerang Principle: Inspire Lifelong Loyalty From Your Employees by Lee Caraher
- Book: Millennials & Management by Lee Caraher
- Book: Breaking Through Bias by Andrea Kramer
- App: Focus at Will
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.0 | With your host, Pete Lekitis. |
| 0:16.2 | Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 133 with Lee Kara Her. |
| 0:27.0 | We're going Meta because Lee is boomeranging or returning back after she's been with us, |
| 0:32.2 | almost 100 episodes ago and we're talking about |
| 0:34.7 | boomerang employees, the concept and why there's benefits there. |
| 0:38.3 | So you're going to walk away with, one, a fresh definition of lifelong loyalty for the change in times. |
| 0:44.3 | Two, how to make a graceful exit on both the employer and employee side |
| 0:49.3 | and three means of telling if you are boomerang ready. |
| 0:53.5 | So if you'd like to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items that we reference here, |
| 0:58.5 | you'll find that over at awesome at your job.com |
| 1:01.0 | slash eep one three three. And while you're over there at awesome. your job |
| 1:05.0 | and I do recommend you check out some of the goodies in terms of the gold nugget |
| 1:10.0 | email list in which we take the notes for you |
| 1:12.0 | if you're running or driving and wish you could write down |
| 1:15.1 | some of the stuff guests are saying, |
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| 1:24.2 | which has some tools for slashing through the waste |
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